alarmed - Story 1642 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He slammed the stapler down on his desk, the sharp crack echoing in the otherwise quiet office. His pulse was hammering in his ears. He read the memo again, each word a hammer blow: "Acquisition." He pictured the shiny new headquarters, the polished desks, the probable redundancies. A bitter taste coated his mouth. He pulled at his tie, loosening it, as if that would somehow make the news easier to digest.

Emotion: alarmed

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.07 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.14

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion alarmed. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 alarmed stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the alarmed emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the alarmed vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😰`	0.304
`😨`	0.272
`worse`	0.269
`😣`	0.261
`не`	0.254

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.323
`enthusi`	-0.258
`happy`	-0.235
`delight`	-0.225
`ية`	-0.217